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by tome 7mo ago
Then it's also not a very useful claim to make on Hacker News.
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by tome 7mo ago
Talk is cheap. Are you prepared to put money, or anything valuable, where your mouth is?
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by tome 7mo ago
That's not the question I'm interested in. The question I'm interested in is whether it's correct to claim that Israel occupies "parts of Lebanon", particularly in the context in which the claim was made, next
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by tome 7mo ago
> The wall extends across the so-called Blue Line and has made “more than 4,000 square metres [43,055sq feet] of Lebanese territory inaccessible to the Lebanese people” So you're saying Israel's occupation of Lebanon amounts to
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by tome 7mo ago
Would you be willing to back up that claim with money on a prediction market?
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by tome 7mo ago
> Why should anyone be opposed to you living in Russia? I don't know. Why did the Cossacks oppose Jews living in Russia?
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by tome 7mo ago
> Israel's occupation of ... parts of Lebanon Which parts of Lebanon does Israel occupy?
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by tome 8mo ago
Really, why? What do you mean? The reason for manual approval of accounts was to defeat spammers.
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by tome 9mo ago
Look again. There is one away fan ban listed during 2025 for the Europa League, as I said. I did not say it happened to no one but Maccabi.
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by tome 9mo ago
Pretty much every language has a form of resumable exception known as a "function call". It's hard for me to understand why no one in the algebraic effects/effect handlers community has noticed this yet.
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by tome 9mo ago
> you clearly don't know much about Maccabi I know nothing about Maccabi, but nothing I've said relies on "good behaviour" on the part of of Maccabi fans.
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by tome 9mo ago
> Edit: I see you removed disputing my quotation as being inaccurate, no worries, I've made similar mistakes before, so while I'll leave my above words, they don't matter anymore. Yes, the mistake was entirely mine. > A
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by tome 9mo ago
Ah, well that I agree with! I suspect the only remaining point of disagreement is whether the level of hooliganism of Maccabi fans warranted the ban. My guess, based on what I've seen from the evidence to the Commons committee is no, b
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by tome 9mo ago
> As for a "particular reason"... the Amsterdam match! A match that happened 12 months prior? Maccabi had played several away matches around Europe in that intervening period. Why should it have been a Birmingham team that saw
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by tome 9mo ago
Right, as you can see here: https://www.uefa.com/running-competitions/disciplinary/stadi... It also looks like a UEFA ban is rare not common. One incidence in 2025 for Europa League matches.
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by tome 9mo ago
> Here's an example from a few months ago where Italy suspended their EU obligations to free movement to prevent hooligans entering from Germany Are you sure that all away fans were banned? Doesn't look like it. It looks like
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by tome 9mo ago
> The Tel Aviv police did see fit to call off a Maccabi game about 2 weeks after this furore I think you mean the match against Hapoel Tel Aviv, which happened before this furore. The Tel Aviv police naturally know and expect that the
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by tome 9mo ago
That list confirms that during 2025 there was one incidence of UEFA banning a Europa League team from bringing fans. There are nearly 200 matches in one season of Europa League, so it's rare, I think.
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by tome 9mo ago
According to the UEFA website you linked it looks like BSC Young Boys were the only other club to face a ban on Europa League away fans in 2025. Maccabi Tel Aviv doesn't appear there, of course, since despite UEFA having rules and puni
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by tome 9mo ago
Are you sure? For example, you said Maccabi Tel Aviv fans > threw an innocent member of the public into a river whereas the BBC says > It was, in fact, a Maccabi fan who was found in the river https://www.bbc.co.uk/new
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by tome 9mo ago
Individual fans are frequently banned. How many other occasions can you name where no away fans were permitted at a game?
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by tome 9mo ago
Maccabi Tel Aviv have been travelling to Europa League away matches every few weeks: https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/clubs/57477--m-tel-avi... Why is it only Birmingham that saw fit to ban them?
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by tome 9mo ago
> > when no other sets of fans are given the same treatment > This treatment is often doled out to clubs' fans. Even in Tel Aviv. Sorry, what treatment are you talking about exactly? Your parent seems to be referring to the
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by tome 9mo ago
OP very specifically said that he was imprisoned by Saddam Hussein and that the US pulled strings to get him freed.
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by tome 9mo ago
Do you have a source showing that he was imprisoned in Iraq? Wikipedia suggests he was there freely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini%27s_life_in_...
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by tome 9mo ago
Seconded. I don't recall hearing anyone talk about "the rules based order" until a couple of years ago.
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by tome 9mo ago
Right, and that's what I see as dismissive.
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by tome 9mo ago
Value investing a la Buffett and Munger is certainly not how we got 2008. Quite the opposite. In fact they were some of the most prominent individuals before 2008 outspoken about the risks of the derivatives that led to 2008, calling them
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by tome 9mo ago
Oh I see, you meant Elon and Thiel prevent the shares they control from being shorted? I originally thought you meant they prevent any TSLA shares from being shorted.
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by tome 9mo ago
I've begun to call it (in my own head) "pessimissivism", a fatal combination of being pessimistic and dismissive. It can't be unique to HN, but I find it particularly jarring that it has taken root here, given the optimi

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